command and conquer
PC

The Visual Evolution Of Sci-Fi Real-Time Strategy Games

StarCraft II‘s expansion pack, Heart of the Swarm, is already out in some parts of the world, and it’s launching tomorrow in North America. To celebrate, let’s take the opportunity to examine more than 20 years’ worth of real-time strategy history and see how much the genre has evolved visually. Since the StarCraft games are set in Earth’s 25th century, we’re focusing only on RTS games in sci-fi settings.

5 December 2011

News

Signs Point To ‘Command & Conquer: Alliances’ As BioWare’s Big VGA Announcement

Though some theories hold that the next Mercenaries game is the mystery reveal EA and BioWare have planned for the Video Game Awards, the smart money is still on a Command & Conquer game. And if that’s the case, it’ll probably be called Command & Conquer: Alliances if 15 domain registries by Electronic Arts are any indication.

13 July 2011

Retro

Let’s Pour One Out For Westwood Studios, Creators Of The Real-Time Strategy Genre

Of all the studios Electronic Arts has bought over the decades, few were as talented or important to the history of video games as Westwood Studios.

21 April 2009

In Real Life

Celebrate Hitler’s Birthday By Killing Him In These Games

On this day 120 years ago, the headman behind World War II and the Holocaust was born in Austria-Hungary. He died in 1945 but lives on in video games as the eternal bad guy.

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